- US regime publicly confesses to two more maritime murders
Source: CBS News
“The U.S. military launched a strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, [murdering] two people, according to U.S. Southern Command. No U.S. military forces were harmed in the operation, it said in a statement on X late Friday. U.S. Southern Command shared a video showing a boat floating in the water before an explosion left it in flames. It said it targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes.” (04/25/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-strike-alleged-drug-boat-kills-2-eastern-pacific-military/
- Tunisia: Regime suspends rights group as crackdown widens
Source: ABC News
“Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, one of the oldest rights groups in Africa and the Arab world and part of the National Dialogue Quartet awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, in the latest move raising concerns over a widening crackdown on civil society. The league confirmed the suspension in a statement late Friday, warning that the decision amounted to ‘a serious and arbitrary violation of freedom of association’ and ‘a direct assault’ on one of Tunisia’s key democratic gains. President Kais Saied has often cited foreign funding, which rights groups sometimes rely on, as a threat to Tunisia, using it to fuel a populist narrative and accuse his political opponents and social justice activists of being foreign agents and stirring unrest at home.” (04/25/26)
- Occupied Ireland: Car bomb explodes outside police station after vehicle hijacked
Source: Reuters
“A car bomb exploded outside a police station in the Dunmurry area of south Belfast late on Saturday after a delivery vehicle was hijacked and the driver forced to take it to the site, [British-occupied] Ireland police said on Sunday. The attack is the latest in a series of sporadic attempts by militant groups that continue to target police officers, decades after a peace deal largely ended sectarian violence in the region. … The car was hijacked in the Twinbrook area of west Belfast shortly after 10:50 p.m. (2150 GMT) on Saturday and a gas cylinder device was placed in the trunk, police said. The man was ordered to drive the vehicle to Dunmurry police station, Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Singleton told a news conference. The vehicle was abandoned outside the front of the station, prompting police to activate an alarm and evacuate nearby homes, Singleton said.” (04/26/26)
- Researcher breaks 15-bit elliptic curve key in “largest quantum attack,” wins 1 Bitcoin bounty from Project Eleven
Source: The Block
“Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli derived a 15-bit elliptic curve key using a publicly accessible quantum computer, in what Project Eleven called the ‘largest quantum attack’ on elliptic curve cryptography to date, albeit at a scale far below that used in real-world cryptographic systems. Project Eleven, a post-quantum security startup, awarded a 1 BTC bounty, currently worth over $78,000, to Lelli as part of its ‘Q-Day Prize.’ The bounty program was launched last year by the project to break elliptic-curve keys ranging from 1 to 25 bits before April 5 this year. … Bitcoin uses 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography to secure wallets, which is far larger than the 15-bit key broken in this demonstration.” (04/24/26)
- Judge rejects DOJ bid to delay Anthropic appeal in Pentagon dispute
Source: Politico
“A federal judge in California has denied the government’s request to pause its appeal of a March ruling that temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Justice Department lawyers argued earlier this week that the appeal should be put on hold until judges at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hand down a ruling in another case regarding Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin denied that request on Thursday, noting that the D.C. case was brought pursuant to a different statute. … Due to a quirk in federal law, Anthropic was forced in March to file lawsuits in both Northern California and the D.C. Circuit when it challenged the government’s action designating it a supply chain risk. On April 8, a three-judge panel at the D.C. Circuit rejected Anthropic’s request to pause the designation, creating a court split.” (04/24/26)
- Mali: Explosions and gunfire as armed groups launch co-ordinated attacks
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Explosions and sustained gunfire have been reported in Mali’s capital, Bamako, as armed groups launched co-ordinated attacks across the country. Mali’s military said on Saturday evening that efforts to repel the attacks were under way, and some militants had already fled. Fighting has also been reported around Kati, home to a major military base outside the capital, as well as in Gao and Kidal in the north, and the central cities of Sevare and Mopti. One analyst described it as the largest jihadist attack in years. Mali has for years been plagued by insurgencies by groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, as well as a separatist movement in the country’s north.” (04/26/26)
- It pleaseth the US Crown to let Venezuelan regime pay abducted Venezuelan politician’s legal fees
Source: United Press International
“Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores can pay their attorneys with money from the Venezuelan government, ending a monthlong legal standoff. Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys wrote a joint letter to Judge Alvin Hellerstein filed Friday night saying that the Department of Treasury would amend a license allowing payments to the Maduros’ lawyers without violating U.S. sanctions laws. … On March 26, Maduro’s attorney argued that the case against them should be dismissed because they were unable to pay their attorney fees. The sanctions disallowed them from accessing funds from the Venezuelan government. Prosecutors had argued that they could use personal funds, but the Maduros argued they didn’t have any.” (04/25/26)
- In Dead of Night, GOP Sets Vote on Trump Fed Pick
Source: Common Dreams
“In the late hours of Friday night, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee scheduled a vote to advance President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, shortly after the Justice Department announced it was dropping its criminal probe into the current head of the central bank, Jerome Powell. The committee vote will take place on April 29, putting megarich financier Kevin Warsh on track for full Senate confirmation by the time Powell’s term as Fed chair ends on May 15. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the banking panel, said in a statement early Saturday morning that ‘either the Republican majority is fooled easily or they are hoping to fool the American people’, arguing that the Justice Department only agreed to drop its widely condemned probe of Powell—for now, at least—to clear the way for Warsh’s confirmation.” (04/25/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/kevin-warsh-confirmation-vote
- Tibetans-in-exile vote for new government as future without Dalai Lama looms
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Tibetans outside Chinese control vote on Sunday for a government-in-exile, an election of heightened significance as they brace for an inevitable, eventual, future without their revered spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) — condemned by China as ‘nothing but a separatist political group’ — is a key institution for the exiles, especially after the Dalai Lama handed over political power in 2011. … Polling is due to take place in 27 countries — but not China. The 91,000 registered voters including Buddhist monks in the high Himalayas, political exiles in South Asia’s megacities and refugees in Australia, Europe and North America. … The five-year parliament, which sits twice a year, has 45 members from across the world: 30 representing three traditional provinces, 10 representing five religious traditions, and five representing the diaspora.” (04/26/26)
- Colombia: Explosive device kills 13, injures 38 on bus in southwest as violence persists
Source: SFGate
“An explosive device killed 13 people traveling on a bus in southwestern Colombia on Saturday, an attack the country’s army chief described as a ‘terrorist act’ that also left at least 38 injured as violence linked to drug trafficking in the region escalates. Octavio Guzmán, the governor of the region of Cauca, said on X that the device was set off while the bus was traveling along the Panamerican Highway in the municipality of Cajibio. Five children were among the injured, Cauca Health Secretary Carolina Camargo told Noticias Caracol, a TV news program.” (04/26/26)
- South Korea: Prosecutors seek 30 years for Yoon over drone plot
Source: United Press International
“South Korean prosecutors on Friday sought a 30-year prison sentence for jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol, alleging he ordered military drones to infiltrate North Korea in a bid to provoke tensions ahead of his short-lived martial law declaration in 2024. A special counsel team led by Cho Eun-suk said Yoon and senior defense officials orchestrated the drone incursions through military command channels to trigger a North Korean response and create a security crisis as justification for emergency rule. The team charged Yoon, former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun and former Defense Counterintelligence Command chief Yeo In-hyung with offenses including aiding an enemy state and abuse of power.” (04/24/26)
- The Perils of Goal‑Free War
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland“When the goal of a war is not clear, it makes any negotiation for achieving a face-saving solution very difficult, especially when the opponent has the strategic advantage. The history of American war has always involved starting and stopping them with an eye toward the election calendar. Unfortunately, the sophisticated Iranians are aware of this fact. They have every incentive to appear reasonable in any negotiations, but stall in an American election year. They understand that Trump and the Republicans will get ever more desperate and be willing to make ever greater concessions to get rid of the martial tar baby as an election nears, in which the Trump administration has already made Republican prospects dim.” (04/25/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/04/25/perils-goal-free-war/
- Note to Those So Inclined: Please Stop Trying to Kill Donald Trump
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“I’m no pacifist. I fully support violence in immediate self-defense of one’s own life or the lives of innocent others, and you won’t find me shedding any tears for those who, having overseen and ordered non-defensive violence, eventually pay the ultimate price for their misdeeds. BUT! When considering an attempt to kill someone, even if the target arguably deserves to die, the likely consequences of one’s own actions are worth considering. If Donald Trump — or any other president — dies at the hands of an assassin, two such consequences follow as night follows day. First, that president becomes a martyr. His party and/or movement become stronger, not weaker. … Second, the regime that president led opportunistically uses the assassination to expand its police and surveillance powers, and clamp down on dissent. Especially the varieties of dissent associated with the assassin’s persona.” (04/26/26)
- Yes, The Right Has an Omnicause
Source: Persuasion
by Virginia Karnstein“I first encountered the term ‘omnicause’ in a 2024 article by Hadley Freeman. As Freeman puts it, ‘The Omnicause is, simply, every cause you must care about if you’re A Good Progressive rolled into one, because everything in the world is connected.’ Thus, ‘trans rights are connected to Palestinian rights are connected to environmental concerns, and any self-respecting progressive who cares about one has to care about the other two … According to The Omnicause, they’re all magically connected. It’s the fatberg of causes, and the fat gluing them all together is Western narcissism.’ Freeman defines the omnicause as specifically a progressive thing. I disagree. The right — and I have my own personal experience to back this up — is more than capable of having an omnicause, and what we saw from President Trump’s awkward interaction with DoorDash Grandma was an assumption that the MAGA fatberg would hold strong.” (04/24/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-the-right-has-an-omnicause
- Trump lived by the conspiracy theory — now he pays the price
Source: The Hill
by Matt Lewis“A truism of life — right up there with ‘don’t read the comments’ — is that what goes around comes around. Put another way, if you live by the sword, you will eventually die by the sword. For more than a decade, these maxims didn’t seem to apply to President Trump — a man who once strongly suggested that Barack Obama had not been born in America, that the 2020 election was stolen, and that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating dogs and cats, just to name a few of his whoppers. … Trump is finally discovering what it’s like to be on the losing end of a conspiracy theory. Trump’s failure to release Epstein files was probably the inflection point. But more recently, the conspiratorial thinking about Trump has metastasized.” (04/24/26)
- The Power of Wealth
Source: Liberalism.org
by Matt Zwolinski“In every political system, wealthy and powerful people will try to write the rules to favor themselves. Liberal democracies should use a range of policy tools to resist elite capture.” (04/24/26)
- Breaking Up “Big Medicine” Won’t Fix What Washington Broke
Source: Town Hall
by Sally C Pipes“Washington is gearing up to crack down on ‘Big Medicine,’ with populist Sens. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA] and Josh Hawley, [R-MO] leading the charge. Over the past decade, America’s healthcare system has become increasingly consolidated, leaving patients with higher prices, fewer choices, and more bureaucratic frustration. But before lawmakers swing a scythe through the healthcare sector, they should ask how it became so consolidated in the first place. Insurance and hospital behemoths didn’t emerge by accident. They’re the predictable result of federal health policy — especially the Affordable Care Act — which has made size a prerequisite for survival. Obamacare’s rules have made it far harder for smaller insurers and independent healthcare providers to compete — while giving larger firms a decisive advantage. The law’s many mandates increase costs, complexity, and financial risk, all of which are easier to absorb at scale.” (04/25/26)
- Incredible Claims
Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon“It is increasingly clear to me that our systems and institutions — of government and technology, of religion and journalism, of justice and enforcement, of economy, of enterprise, even of entertainment — are run on abuse and for the sake of abusers. This convinces me that we are dealing with a culture of abuse, a collective spiritual alignment with abuse know as supremacy — the belief that only some people matter. It’s a sickness that is systemic and social and spiritual more than it is individual, which suggests to me that the remedy will need to be systemic and social and spiritual as well. How to heal from this systemic, social, and spiritual sickness?” (04/25/26)
- There Is No Winning in Iran
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson“There is no victory coming in Iran. There are better and worse possible outcomes. There is no victory coming in Iran because it is an illegal war that will leave our constitutional mechanism, already running rough, further out of balance for a generation, with the presidential warmaking power now entirely untethered from Congress. There is no upside to that. Repairing the damage would take a generation of work by better men and women than we currently have in Washington. On top of this, the Trump administration has effectively conceded sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz to Iran, a privilege Iran did not previously enjoy regarding the international strait, which is partly in the territorial waters of Oman. … In this war, the United States will lose no battles, but Iran has, in effect, gained territory.” (04/24/26)
- Congress Has Become Almost Totally Irrelevant
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen“More than three weeks ago, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) agreed to Democratic terms to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), except for its immigration enforcement agencies. That bill has still not become a law, prolonging the longest shutdown of any government agency in history. Nobody has even thought about the DHS shutdown for a while, because President Trump signed executive orders to first pay airport security agents on March 27, and then all other agency personnel on April 3, under the guise of emergency action. It should be said plainly: This is illegal, it has always been illegal, and the precedent it sets pushes Congress, the branch of government with the power of the purse, into total irrelevance.” (04/24/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/04/24/congress-has-become-almost-totally-irrelevant/
- Only Liberal Societies Can Handle Alien Life
Source: The UnPopulist
by Kenneth Silber“Its existence will raise confusing and difficult questions for earthlings that authoritarians won’t have the credibility to negotiate.” (04/24/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/only-liberal-societies-can-handle
- Why fighting federal-benefit fraud must top the Republican agenda
Source: New York Post
by staff“Expect the fight against fraud to dominate the Republican agenda in Congress and on the campaign trail in the months ahead: It’s past time to stop the theft of tens and even hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars from programs meant to help the sick, needy and otherwise vulnerable. Wednesday saw Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) unveil the Protecting American Taxpayers Act, a major package of legislation produced by the DOGE Caucus, a group of senators aiming to continue the work of the Department of Government Efficiency, the executive branch agency spearheaded by Elon Musk that targeted fraud and waste.” (04/25/26)
- The Cadaver Synod of Pope Donald
Source: CounterPunch
by Jerry Long“At this very moment the President is at the peak of his cognitive powers. He will not get saner at 80, and the odds are pick ‘em that when he does shuffle off this mortal coil he will attempt to take all of us – and the copper wiring from the coil – with him. Yet Trump’s defenders sicken me more than Trump. They constantly claim deeper perspectives for his actions, as though the Trump Presidency were an inverse Picture Of Dorian Gray, and locked away in the Oval Office was a pristine portrait growing more fair with each act of indecency. But the moral leper behind the Resolute Desk is the reality, and no tacky amount of gold or cheap bordello flourishes can camouflage its pustules.” (04/24/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/24/the-cadaver-synod-of-pope-donald/
- Scandinavia’s U-turn on book reading
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“Amid a spate of cellphone and social media bans for young people around the world, there’s a parallel, quieter shift taking place in education. It is away from the ubiquity of digital technology and back to the analog tools of paper, pen, and pencils. And, in an interesting twist, this change is being led by the Scandinavian nations that pioneered the shift to ed tech learning more than a decade ago. Today, they are grappling with restoring – or, rather, redefining – what contributes to meaningful and enduring education.” (04/24/26)
- Reggio Meets Axolotls
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kelsy Achtenberg“Before we can improve school, we have to ask a deeper question: What is school actually for? For us at The Innovation School, that question didn’t lead to a packaged curriculum or a scripted program. It led us to a philosophy that has shaped how we see children, learning, and the role of a teacher. That philosophy is the Reggio Emilia approach. It began after World War II in a small town in Italy, when a community led by educator Loris Malaguzzi set out to reimagine what education could be. After the destruction of the war, they wanted a system that wasn’t built on compliance or rigidity. They wanted one built on curiosity, real-life experiences, and human potential.” (04/24/26)
- Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?
Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi“The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won’t NOT find it.” (04/24/26)
https://www.racket.news/p/twitter-files-southern-poverty-law
- We Can’t Agree on Inequality — Here’s Why
Source: EconLog
by Maurizio Bovi“Centuries of argument have left a stubborn question unresolved: how much economic inequality is acceptable? Unlike inequalities rooted in race, gender, or disability — which typically attract broad moral condemnation — economic inequality in income, consumption, and wealth remains fiercely contested. That contestation does not result from a flaw in the debate; it is the debate’s defining feature.” (04/24/26)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2026/boviinequality
- Turns Out, “Unite the Right” Charlottesville Rally was Underwritten by the Left [sic]
Source: Batya Ungar-Sargon
by Batya Ungar-Sargon“An explosive new indictment was handed down against the Southern Poverty Law Center this week, accusing the storied civil rights organization of 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and money laundering. The Department of Justice is alleging that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled over $3 million from donors to leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, Unite the Right, and the Nazi Party, among other extremist organizations. … Paying millions of dollars to Nazis and Klansmen would be bad enough. But the indictment alleges that the SPLC went beyond that, actually underwriting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, providing material support and supervision to what the Left turned into the symbol of Right-wing hate.” [editor’s note: Ungar-Sargon does have a little credibility on Charlottesville — on the “right” she was one of the few who didn’t try to perpetrate the “Charlottesville Hoax” Hoax – TLK] (04/26/26)
https://www.batya-us.com/p/for-years-the-left-used-the-unite
- Government Cannot Make Us Healthy
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Mollie Engelhart“[T]he truth is, the government was never going to save us. It was never designed to move faster than the people. It responds to pressure, to markets, and to what we tolerate and what we demand. Right now, we are still funding the very system we say we want to change. The only real power we have is how we spend our money, our time, and our energy, and that power has to be exercised consistently. It is easy to vote one day in November. It is hard to change how we spend our money every single day. It is hard to change how we eat every single day. It is hard to choose, over and over again, to support something different when the system is designed to make the alternative less convenient.” (04/24/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/government-cannot-make-us-healthy/
- Who is responsible when an AI weapon pulls the trigger?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Muhammad Saad“In 1863, Francis Lieber, the Prussian-American jurist commissioned by Abraham Lincoln to codify the laws of land warfare, wrote that no soldier may kill an enemy ‘who has laid down his arms.’ War, however brutal, must remain an act performed by a morally responsible agent who can account for what he has done and to whom it has been done. The Lieber Code was imperfect. Its application was racially selective and its humanitarian ambitions frequently betrayed in practice. But its foundational premise survived two world wars, the drafting of the Geneva Conventions and the development of every weapons system from the machine gun to the precision-guided munition. Its premise is that lethal force requires a human being who can be identified, interrogated, and held to account. Today, AI-powered targeting systems fundamentally break this premise.” (04/24/26)
- Anarchist Notes on the Theory of Money, Credit, and Capital. Part II: Past, Present and Future of Money
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson“It makes no sense to seek the historical origin of money unless we start from a definition of what money is. I start from L. Randall Wray’s contention that the defining feature of money is providing a unit of account, and that all the other conventionally assigned attributes of money are secondary where they exist at all.” (04/25/26)
- An All-American Retort to Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard“Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has reportedly killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon as part of an effort to commandeer that territory. Israel’s bombing has been so indiscriminate that even President Donald Trump objected. … I have the same recommendation now that I had in a 1987 USA Today piece opposing deployment of the U.S. Navy to the Persian Gulf: ‘This is not our war, and there is no profit in U.S. intervention.’ GTFO remains the best Middle East policy for America.” (04/24/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/an-all-american-retort-to-israels-invasion-of-lebanon
- Israel Apologists Lie About Their Feelings And Beliefs
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“One of the most frustrating things about Israel apologists is how they constantly pretend to believe things they don’t really believe in order to push Israeli PR. There’s a tweet going around by a rabbi named Elchanan Poupko that says ‘I had never met a Zionist who does not care also for the lives of innocent Palestinians. I have never met an anti-zionist who does care for the lives of israelis. That is the difference between us.’ This person does not believe his own claim. He is knowingly lying about what he thinks is true about Zionists. A Penn State survey published in Israeli media last year found that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza. Nearly half, 47 percent, said the IDF should kill all inhabitants of any city they capture — that’s inhabitants, not combatants.” (04/25/26)
- The new Blob is even scarier than the old one
Source: NonZero Newsletter
by Robert Wright“As the age of artificial intelligence dawns, the various people who make a living as Blobsters — the think tankers, the past and present government officials, the military-industrial-complex titans, the influential media figures — show few signs of getting the picture. Whereas the atomic age spawned lots of creative and even enlightened thinking about its revolutionary implications for national and international security, the age of AI seems so far to be having roughly the opposite effect.” (04/25/26)
- Our Anti-Rich Tax System
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman“I suspect that, considering how most commentators talk about the matter, many people think the U.S. tax system favors the rich, the public’s favorite scapegoat. But according to Adam N. Michel, the Cato Institute’s director of tax policy studies, ‘We actually have one of the most progressive income taxes in the developed world.’ … The average tax rate on upper-tier earners is as high as 33.4 percent. ‘[A]s a share of adjusted gross income (AGI), the top half of income earners paid 97.1 percent of federal income taxes.’ That leaves less than 3 percent for the rest.” (04/24/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-who-pays-federal-taxes
- After Viktor Orbán’s Defeat in Hungary, the “New Right” Needs a New Foreign Despot To Admire
Source: Reason
by Steven Greenhut“Hungary is Europe’s basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.” (04/24/26)
- Has Iran Learned the North Korea Lesson: Nukes Are Essential To Deter the US?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter“The contrast between Washington’s caution in dealing with a nuclear-armed North Korea and the flagrant U.S. coercion of Iran, which possesses no such weapons, could hardly be more striking. It has not gone unnoticed. Pyongyang’s successful defiance of the United States regarding the nuclear issue could well produce an important lesson for Iran’s leaders. Pyongyang has covertly built a small arsenal of approximately 50 nuclear warheads and an increasingly sophisticated fleet of ballistic missiles to deliver them. U.S. and other leaders now treat North Korea with caution and restraint, however grudgingly. Conversely, an Iran without nuclear weapons is being pounded severely. Iranian leaders would be obtuse not to at least try to acquire (through construction or purchase) a modest deterrent similar to North Korea’s.” (04/24/26)
- Carlson’s cautious apology does little to repair Trumpism’s damage
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Matt K Lewis“When you break a promise as clear as ‘No new wars,’ you shouldn’t be surprised when even your most loyal supporters revolt. And that’s exactly what is happening to President Trump. One such disillusioned supporter is Tucker Carlson — who on a recent podcast with his brother Buckley admitted, in essence, ‘My bad.’ … let’s be clear-eyed about what Carlson is — and isn’t — saying here. Specifically, it’s worth noting that the apology doesn’t extend to validating those of us who opposed Trump from the beginning. In fact, it almost can’t. Doing that would require the confessor to reinterpret not just Trump’s presidency, but also the entire ecosystem that made supporting Trump a viable option in the first place. It would mean admitting that the framework he used to evaluate Trump was flawed, not just the outcome.” (04/24/26)
- Unattended Baggage, episode 338
Source: Unattended Baggage
“Which button will YOU press?” (04/25/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-338-which-button-will-you
- System Update, 04/25/26
Source: System Update
“LIVE Q&A with Glenn Greenwald: the Iran War, Tucker’s Trump Apology, SPLC Indictment, Cuba, and More.” (04/25/26)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/live-q-and-a-with-glenn-greenwald
- Bulwark Takes, 04/26/26
Source: The Bulwark
“WHCD Shooting: What We Know Now, What’s Next.” (04/26/26)
- Liberal Currents, 04/25/26
Source: Liberal Currents
“Courting Fascism (with Ryan Geddie).” (04/25/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/courting-fascism-with-ryan-geddie/
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2755
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Judge Napolitano: Trump Is Not of Sound Mind.” (04/24/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2755-judge-napolitano-trump-is-not-of-sound-mind/
- The Good Fight, 04/25/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Luis Garicano on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” (04/25/26)
- The Intercept Briefing, 04/24/26
Source: The Intercept
“Intercept staffers discuss the themes emerging this midterm election season.” (04/24/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/24/congress-me-too-swalwell-democrats-midterms/
- TAC Right Now, 04/24/26
Source: The American Conservative
“Iran, Epstein, and Trump’s Political Fiasco.” (04/24/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tac-right-now-iran-epstein-and-trumps-political-fiasco/
- Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 04/24/26
Source: Freedom Works
“Steve Swedberg, Competitive Enterprise Institute ‘New Fed Chairman.'” (04/24/26)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2026-04-25_zfw04242026.mp3
- Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 04/24/26
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“Larken Rose (Author; Activist) comes on the program to provide an update on what he has been doing, geopolitics, The Activation Tour — Prescott, AZ with Derrick Broze — Friday, May 1, 6-10 PM (where he is a speaker), etc.” (04/24/26)
- Reasonably Optimistic, 04/24/26
Source: Washington Post
“Everyone wants to live like an influencer now.” (04/24/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/everyone-wants-to-live-like-an-influencer-now/
- The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 04/24/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Greg Lukianoff On Free Speech Fights.” (04/24/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/greg-lukianoff-on-free-speech-fights
- Pod Save America, episode 1151
Source: Crooked Media
“Trump Loses the Gerrymander War.” (04/24/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8894902-trump-loses-the-gerrymander-war
- Serious Trouble, 04/24/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“Laura Loomer and Kash Patel lose their defamation suits, but Patel has filed a new one; a former Capitol police officer sues The Blaze for accusing her of being the pipe bomber; SPLC is indicted.” (04/24/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/this-episode-contains-no-administrative
- Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael, 04/24/26
Source: Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
“Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress w/ Maya L. Kornberg.” (04/24/26)
- The Evil Within, episode 8
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Monetary System.” (04/24/26)